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The most common complaint among people with chronic pain is low back pain. Here’s what treatments do – and don’t – work.
Rates of spinal fusion surgery for back pain are on the rise. This is despite little evidence that it’s an effective procedure and studies showing many will have revision surgery within ten years.
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